According to Perishable News, in response to the need for a more secure and reliable cold supply chain Carrier has announced their new Healthy, Safe, Sustainable Cold Chain Program.

The need for safe and sustainable cold chain technologies to preserve and protect the supply of food, medicine and vaccines around the world has never been greater.. 

According to CSQ, new technologies played an important role in helping e-commerce grow during the pandemic, and even before. 

It is easy to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been responsible for a tremendous shift from brick-and-mortar retail to e-commerce. After all, consumer spending on e-commerce jumped 31.8% from Q1 to Q2 2020, even as retail sales decreased.

According to the Times Colonist, a Victoria company is hoping their pinpoint temperature control containers will prove to be a valuable tool in the shipment of Covid vaccines. 

A Victoria clean-tech company is hoping to play a key role in the food and pharmaceutical supply chain — including the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines — as it starts production next month of its temperature-controlled shipping units.